Improvement in stove-legs



" `all euhomlit mdy" toncern ``fJ11`1\1 1111sffftimeline:1111), unos BALTIMORE. MARYLAND;

Letters Patent No. 112,314,11atea March 7,1871.

f ,.:Berin known unat`1-,JAMEs `Bmmmnm, Jr., of Baltimore,- inA `ther` State `of Maryland, have invented.y l lcertain `new andjuseful-Improvements in the Manner offlastening Stove LFeetto their" Plates; andI do .hereby `declare thev followingfto be a full, clear, and

1 exact descriptionef the same, reference being had to i y the accompanyingdrawingsmakig a part of this speci'- 1 l cation,inwhichf :1 i

pears lon looking from below and upward Y `Figure 3 represents, :in perspective, the dcvetail or 1 'Similar letters of reference where they occur in the ,separate figures denote like partsinY all the drawings4 My invention relatesfto` afmethod of keying or boltl ingythe feet of arstov'e: to Vthe stove-plate so that in movingthe stevelthe feetfyvill not beeone displaced,

bntgcan be readily reinted when desirable `to do so, on replaced in a moment,.as will be explained. V

"On thegstovc-plate Aare casttwo lugs1 B B,'th'eir,

` facesforming adovetailed opening, into which a dove- The Schedule referred te in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

tailed or wedge-shaped arm, O, cast on the -:stove-foot, can'be slid, and in which it will snugly fit.

On the arm C, and projecting downward from it when in place on the stove-plate, there is cast or formed a flange or abutment, I), and through thelugs B B isf made'a bolt-hole that is .inline with the face a of the abutment D, so that when the'spring key or bolt E is passed through said openings or hole, and against the Vface a of the abutment, the foot shall be completely locked to the stoy'eplate. y

The shouldered spring b, ou the key or bolt E, firmly holds the key in place, as Well wbenthefoot is -in its proper place as when it may be removed, and the keys or bolts are kept in their seats so as to be ready at hand when the feet are to be again applied.

Having ,thus fully described my invention,

What I claim 'therein as new is.

A` stove-foot `fastening composed of the lugs B B,

arm C, and its shoulder D, and the self-locking spring bolt mikey E passing through the lugs B B and 'against or behind the shoulde1"\1),'the Wholeconstruct ed, arranged, and operating together, substantially as `and for the purpose described and represented.

1- Witnesses: JAMES BIRGKHEAD, JR. MUNROE SNELL,

GUsTAV HEBLER. 

